The 25 Best Cities and Neighborhoods for Millennials

The Top 25 Best Cities and Neighborhoods for Millennials ranks the best places for young people to live in the United States, using more than a dozen factors as well as surveys of nearly 500,000 college students and recent grads. View the full methodology and list of factors.

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I’m happy you included Raleigh, but “best neighborhood for Millennials” being Morrisville was pretty stupid. Morrisville is a suburb 15 miles outside of Raleigh that’s mostly full of families and adults in their 40s on up. Young, hip single people simply DO NOT live there. Best neighborhoods in Raleigh for millennials would be: Downtown, Five Points, Hillsborough Street, or Cameron Park.

Cow Hollow? Seriously? Have you guys ever been to San Francisco. Cow Hollow and the surrounding Marina are among the least desirable parts of the city. Worse than the Tenderloin. That might say a thing or two about the kinds of people that read this site!

The fact that you show New Orleans as having a “below average” crime score and Atlanta as having a “high” crime score indicates the methodology (or lack thereof) used in this article. Plus, Ardmore is located in the Atlanta city limits but is not considered to be in a dangerous area of Atlanta. LGD in New Orleans would be considered more dangerous – especially if it is expanded (as many brokers have started doing) to include the area on the Carondelet side of St. Charles, going back towards LaSalle Street. I know and love both cities, but have to take issue with these ratings. And millennials are not flocking to Ardmore in Atlanta. They want Old Fourth Ward or Midtown.

Orlando? Really? Never mind the Millennials. This town is an absolute wasteland for anyone who isn’t a millionaire, an executive in the hospitality industry, or eligible to receive their Social Security checks.

I’ve never recommended Orlando (or Florida) to anyone who didn’t fit at least one of those categories, and I’m not about to start now. In fact, I’m working toward leaving this place behind for a city that actually has something, anything to offer.